WADDY, Richard Granville
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | King Edward's Horse |
| Born: | Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia, 18 February 1885 |
| Home Town: | Morpeth, Maitland Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Maitland High School, Kings School Parramatta, Sydney University, Oxford University |
| Occupation: | Opthalmic Surgeon |
| Died: | Natural causes, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 5 February 1974, aged 88 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Maitland High School Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 25 May 1915: | Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Captain | |
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| 27 Sep 1919: | Embarked British Forces (All Conflicts), RMS Osterley, Tilbury for return to Australia by private passage with wife and family - disembarking Sydney 9 November 1919 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Captain, King Edward's Horse |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Mr. Richard Granville Waddy has been elected Rhodes Scholar for New South Wales for 1908.
He is the youngest son of P R Waddy, Manager of the Commercial Bank, West Maitland, and the brother of Rev. Stacey Waddy, headmaster of King's School, West Maitland.
The scholarship will not be available until August next, and probably about January, 1909, the young student, who is a native of Morpeth, and 19 years of age, will go to England, and complete his medical studies at Oxford.
Dr. Richard Granville Waddy, of Morpeth, has been awarded a diploma in opthmalogy by Oxford University. He was born and reared in Morpeth. He was a pupil at East Maitland Boys High School and had been at Oxford for about one and half years, where he went after graduating at the Sydney University with honours in each year. This diploma is the first that has ever been granted so that Australians will always share that honour and distinction. The diploma is open by esamination to all opthalmic surgeons, which makes the honour much more prized. At preent Dr. Waddy is in residence at the Oxford Eye Hospital, and the experience which he will gain there must be of enormous benefit in his later work in Australia. Maitland friends will be particularly pleased to learn of Dr. Waddy's signal success.
The engagement is announced of Dorothy Maude Filleuil Hensley, daughter of the late Frederic Filleuil Hensley, L.CS. and Mrs. Haig-Brown, Godalming, Surrey to Richard Granville Waddy, M.B., B.Sc., Inspector Ophthalmic Hospital, Cairo, youngest son of Colonel Richard Anders Waddy, and Mrs. Waddy of Morpeth, NSW. - 14 Feb 1914
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